Artillery Hillary's Fundraiser in Sacramento gets Protested and Delayed

The $500 to $4,600 per person campaign fundraiser was supposed to be quite hush hush. The media were not invited. The invite didn’t have the address on it. But late Wednesday night after some digging on the Internet by the protesters, they got word got out to their supporters where the dinner was planned.

About 20 protesters showed up and organizer Pearcy brought along his usual displays, including his mock coffin with a U.S. flag draped over it.

"Hillary is not welcome in Sacramento as a candidate," Pearcy said. "If you fund the war, you're keeping the troops in harm's way … She can't have it both ways."

After about a half an hour of protesting outside the gates of the home to the wealthy Hillary host, Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis, a man who called himself a Secret Service agent (but who refused to show his badge) asked Pearcy to open up the coffin because he feared a bomb was planted inside. Pearcy at first said they had no probable cause to search it, but after the threat of bringing a bomb squad to check it out, he opened it up, showing them that there was nothing inside.

Despite that, the Secret Service called in to local law enforcement and the bomb squad.

Meanwhile, Hillary’s fundraising guests who arrived after 5:30 p.m. were forced to stay 300 yards from the gates while the bomb squad investigated the coffin. Standing around in expensive Stilletos and fancy evening wear, many of them were pissed-off as they had
to mingle with the protesters.

Protesters got a chance to tell them what the delay was really about and some of the guests were so dismayed that they left.

Reportedly, one individual said, “(Hillary’s) not even worth it” and then took off home. Unfortunately for some of the guests who parked within the 300-yard bomb scare zone, they weren’t as lucky. They were trapped.

Finally, about 8:30 p.m., Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis came out and welcomed guests into her home, using an alternate route through fields and behind a neighbor's yard. She thanked guests for being patient and reprimanded protesters.

So what was the bomb scare all about? One word: Metronome. Protester Dan Elliott, who plays the drums at various protests, uses one to keep in rhythm. He had brought it with him on Thursday. The ticking sound it makes is what made the bomb squad take more than
two hours to figure out it was harmless.

For the protesters, the event could not have gone any better. The Secret Service was made out to look foolish and some of Hillary’s guests left early without writing a check.

“Fund Hillary, fund the War!” "There's your tax dollars at work."